DELLA LUTHER

“It’s $8.99 a gallon right now. It’s not the highest prices I have seen, sometimes it gets up to $10.99. I think this has a four-gallon tank. This is my daughter ride—it’s almost out. She always lets me use it when it’s almost out. [Laughs]

I am born and raised here. I used to be a health aide (community health aides are frontline health care providers throughout rural Alaska). I started in ‘99, and I just retired. It’s challenging at times living here because of the cold, but we live with it. We go along with each season, and try to go along with our traditional life style.”

–Della Luther is Inupiaq and lives in Noatak, Alaska.